The BBC has secured the UK rights to FremantleMedia Australia’s six-part 'reimagining' of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.
“Lily is a star and she is compelling. The camera loves her, she commands real authority, she occupies the screen and you don’t doubt for a minute that she could bash your head in,” says 'Romper Stomper' producer John Edwards.
FremantleMedia Australia’s re-imagining of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' has landed another key sale, this time to France, after Amazon Prime Video bought the US rights.
Aussie director and writer Amanda Brotchie was in Los Angeles in January, her base for the past 18 months, when her friend and occasional collaborator Michael Rymer asked if she was interested in directing an episode of Foxtel’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.
When Anna McGahan was offered the role of mathematics teacher Miss Greta McGraw in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', she was informed the series was a re-imagining of the 1967 Joan Lindsay novel, which in turn inspired Peter Weir’s seminal 1975 movie.
FremantleMedia Australia’s re-imagining of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' has been sold to Amazon Prime Video US.
FremantleMedia’s six-parter begins shooting later this month. Amanda Brotchie ('Agony, 'This is Littleton', 'Lowdown') will direct alongside the previously announced Michael Rymer and Canadian Larysa Kondracki.
Rymer describes 'Tremula', in which a group of international astronauts go missing on a Mars training simulation in the middle of the Australian desert, as "The Martian meets Picnic at Hanging Rock".